Hey so I had posted in another section as to wether or not gear was right for me or not at this stage in my life, since I'm desperate to try anything to get past my plateau. im Male, 33 years of age. I am 5"10 260 pounds. Not sure what my body fat is but at around 200 lbs I'd be roughly 12% give or take. I have type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure. I exercise quite a bit and there are times where I don't for a while because I get a bit discouraged by the lack of further progess. I've tried just about everything. I could calories, carbs, fat, protein intake. I take fish oil, vege greens, gaspari multi vitamin, phyto berries, green coffee bean extract, protein shake isolate-93. I spend so much money on these supplements hoping they would help me with energy and give me a bit of an added boost to my metabolism to burn the fat of what seems to be impossible. I used to weigh 340 pounds, so I've lost 80 pounds on my own but that first bit was in some ways easy as I had to stop simple things to get that weight off. eg quit drinking 4L of coke a day, stop eating an entire loaf of bread a day, stop eating 2 large pizzas 3x a week kinda thing. This last 50-60 pounds won't go away. Here's what I've tried as far as macro nutrients go. Wether I eat 1600-2200 calories a day, exercise or not I don't really gain nor lose weight. I will fluctuate in weight only by about 5-10 pounds at the most. so rather than going back 15 years to when I started putting the weight on I will only go back as far as in January of this year 2012 when I started to do my own study as to how my body responds to exercise, calorie restriction ect. Jan 1st 2012 I was 272 pounds. I started using myfitnesspal and ate 2000 calories a day with 0 exercise on purpose just to see for my own study how that would work to begin with. At the end of the month by Feb 1st 2012 I had only lost 2 pounds. So then Feb 2nd 2012 I decided to add a 30 minute walk a day changing nothing to my diet to see if that would help any. You'd think it would but to my dissapointment I was still 270 pounds. Now we're March 1st, been keepin strict count of my calories and had added exercise and after 2 months I had only lost 2 pounds. So March 1st I decide you know what? I'm gonna try this P90X stuff and see how that works out for a month. Again knowing I was gonna be working out I figured I'd stick to 2500 calories...why? because it was suggested following their diet plan that I eat 3200 calories. Are you kidding me I thought? I'm trying to lose fat not eat more. after 1 month by April 1st 2012 I get on that scale and I had gained 3 pounds. I now weighed 273 lbs!!! I grabbed a measuring tape and had lost about .5" off my waist so I knew I didn't get fatter, the fact still remained that I'm trying to lose weight and get to 200 pounds not get closer to 300lbs. So now I figure maybe 2500 calories is too much so I drop it to 2000 calories for the month of May 2012 and do another 30 days of P90X. Now I'm back to 270 pounds but I feel much stronger and feel less pain after each workout and I'm using heavier dumbells ect so I'm content but again now we're half way through the year it's fricking June 1st and I still weigh 270 pounds. 2 lbs lost in 6 months ...wow whoopie shit im thinking to myself. Now I'm beyond pissed off I decide after half a year to try something else. No excercise, 2000 calories but this time I'm gonna count and restrict my carbs I lost 5 pounds in almost 2 weeks eating about 80-120g of carbs a day. Now I'm thinking to myself I lost in 10 days what I couldn't do in 6 damn months. So now I was like wow that low carb diet shit really does work and I get excited and decide to add a walk to my daily routine, I was dizzy for a bit but got used to it pretty quick, I tried P90X on the carb restriction, it was nearly impossible and had to take breaks, thought I was gonna faint. but I was 265 pounds and I swore to myself I will never go back in the 270's again...screw that! Anyhow I manage to keep up with it till July 1st and I managed to get down to 260 pounds. I was so excited I called my parents and told them I broke out of the 270 range I was at for years and got down to 260. Sure it had taken me 7 months to lose 10 pounds but whatever, it was better than nothing I thought. July 1st I'm thinking 2000 calories 50g of carbs lets rock this out! I wanna be 250 by the end of this month but I couldn't quite hack the P90X, after several times almost passing out I knew restricting my carb intake was impacting me so I figured I'd stick to walking since that's easier. after a few weeks that didn't do anything so I dropped my calories to 1500 50g of carbs and by august 1st I was 252 pounds! I had now lost 20 pounds since January 2012 so 8 months it took. Now we're Almost Oct 1st and I've put on 10 pounds in the last 2 months because I've been frustrated and I took a break from fitness pal and counting carbs, calories, ect. It basically drove me nuts how much I had to put in to lose 20 pounds only to easily put half of that back on in a matter of weeks. In closing back in August of 2010 I lost 30 pounds in 30 days. I was 270 and dropped down to 240 by Sept 1st 2010. I did it by eating chicken breast , lettuce, tomatoes, water, 1/2 cup oatmeal a day 2000 calories and walking 10km or 6.2 miles a day. Here's the thing, after that month I felt like shit I had no energy, sure my gut was smaller and everyone was like WTF man!!! wow you look great! so that felt amazing but I just couldn't keep up I had run myself into the ground. I would eventually put the weight back on slowly by slowing down on my walks and increasing my calories to 2400. Sorry for all the rambling I just figured the more info you know about me and what I've done the more accurate a response I may get. When I lose that 30 pounds in a month my sugars were under 100% control, nowdays they aren't quite as low but not too bad. My theory is that as long as my sugars are a bit high my body won't burn fat until the sugars drop. as far as working out and walking it's been 2 weeks now that I started walking 25-30 min a day again im about 260-262 pounds. Finally here's what a typical day looks like for me when I eat.
Meal 1: 2-4 eggs with 2 slices of country harvest bread. fish oil, vitamin, vege greens, phyto berries, Protein shake. half the time I have no bread and use lettuce instead.
Meal 2: 200g of skinless chicken breast. 80g of romaine lettuce. 1TBsp thousand island dressing. 30g of black diamond brick cheese.
Meal 3: 100g of skinless chicken breast. 40g of romaine lettuce. 1TBsp thousand island dressing. 30g of black diamon brick cheese.
cucumber, tomato, onions.
I know this is likely a crap eating regime but it's because I just don't know what to do anymore. If I eat anything else my blood sugars go up and these foods keep my blood sugars somewhat low. A day I have about 1500-1800 calories 40-60g of carbs, 50-60g of fat and roughly 130g or protein. I eat this stuff a lot because I'm getting my protein, some veggies, and eggs which I just love. this is a bit different from what I ate when I lost 30 pounds in 30 days back then I'd eat 2000 calories which was roughly 600g of chicken breast a day, lettuce, tomatoes, 1/4 to 1/2 oatmeal a day, protein shake and that was about it and the occassional serving of brown rice like 50g. I kinda tried that again recently but I just don't have the energy to walk 6.2 miles or 10km a day. I'm sorry I wrote a lot.
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Originally Posted by Elonidas
) Did you realize your legs have the largest muscles which means they burn more energy when you work em!!!!! 